Saintes
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📷 Cobber17· CC BY-SA 3.0Au bord de la Charente | On the banks of the Charente
About
Saintes is a commune and historic town in western France, in the Charente-Maritime department of which it is a sub-prefecture, in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Saintes is the second-largest city in Charente-Maritime, with 25,518 inhabitants in 2021. The city's immediate surroundings form the second-most populous metropolitan area in the department, with 56,598 inhabitants. While a majority of the surrounding landscape consists of fertile, productive fields, a significant minority of the region remains forested, its natural state.
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The next week in Saintes
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Rain
16° / 7°
UV High
Sat
Showers
17° / 8°
UV High
Sun
Showers
17° / 11°
UV Moderate
Mon
Overcast
18° / 10°
UV Moderate
Tue
Overcast
18° / 11°
0.6 mm
UV High
Wed
Overcast
22° / 14°
UV High
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
32° / 1°
Typical high / low
2 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
14.9h
06:32 – 21:25local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Saintes
1 commercial airport within 100 km. Closest is La Rochelle Île de Ré Airport (LRH) at 65 km.
Getting around Saintes
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
LEXFlixBus-euBlaBlaCar BusFlixBus-deSNCF VoyageursBUSS (Saintes)BussCars Régionaux 17 - Charente Maritime
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
This page blends public reference data, climate/elevation services, and personal notes. Travel requirements can change, so visa and entry details should be checked again before booking.
- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.